News Beach volleyball 07/07/2013 Dutch delight as Brouwer and Meeuwsen claim gold Stare Jablonki Stare Jablonki, Poland, July 7, 2013 – Thirteenthseeds Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen of the Netherlands are the newworld champions after beating Brazilian 10th seeds Ricardo Santos and AlvaroFilho 2-0 (21-18, 21-16) amongst sensational scenes at Stare Jablonki onSunday. The surprise package of the tournament won theircountry’s first ever World Championship medal which bodes well for the nextedition of the FIVB’s premier beach volleyball tournament, which will be heldin the Netherlands in 2015. The men’s final brought to a close seven thrillingdays of beach volleyball action in the beautiful Mazury region with the Chinesewomen’s pair Chen Xue and Zhang Xi walking away with their first world title onSaturday and Brouwer and Meeuwsen their first ever FIVB medal. Dutch duo makeshistory to claim world goldUnheralded pair Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsenbecame the first Dutch team to win a World Championships medal when they beatRicardo Santos and Alvaro Filho to claim gold in the final of the FIVB BeachVolleyball World Championships Mazury 2013 on Sunday. The Dutch players hadalready gone further than they had ever done before in a senior tournament, andthen capped their remarkable run with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-16) victory. More Brouwer - Anythingcan happen when you are in a flow“Anything can happen when you are in a flow,”Alexander Brouwer from the Netherlands said about their sudden success at theFIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013. Brouwer (23) and RobertMeeuwsen (25) beat Brazil’s Ricardo Santos and his new partner Alvaro Filho 2-0(21-18 21-16) in the final. MoreAlvaro happy tolearn from the master on road to RioAlvaro Filho may have been unable to finish the FIVBBeach Volleyball aWorld Championships Mazury 2013 by landing gold, but he isconfident he is on the right track to the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Gamesafter winning silver alongside Ricardo Santos. The Brazilian pair were beatenin the gold medal match by surprise Dutch duo Alexander Brouwer and RobertMeeuwsen, but it has already been a successful first season for the22-year-old, alongside the 38-year-old Ricardo. MoreNumber one in somany waysThe FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship Mazury2013 winners Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen of the Netherlands can pointto the numbers, not only on the scoreboard but also in the stats to reflect howthey won their first ever FIVB title. The world champions were two of the mostconsistent players across all of the statistics while as a team they numberedthe most number of spikes and were equal best with Austria’s ClemensDoppler-Alexander Horst as the best attacking team with a spiking percentage of0.54%. More Germans bounce backto claim bronzeJonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik earned the biggestprize of their careers by defeating 2011 world champions Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego to win the bronze with a 2-0(21-17, 21-19) victory. The Germans started strongly and didn’t let theBrazilians settle in the first set. In the second the lead swung back andforth, but eventually Erdmann and Matysik opened a lead and while Alison andEmanuel tried to peg them back they were too far in front and won with aMatysik spike. More For more info contact:FIVB Press Director Richard Bakerpress@fivb.org0048 601 426 597FIVB Beach Volleyball WorldChampionships Mazury 2013 Tournament PageFIVB Beach Volleyball WorldChampionships Mazury 2013 Women's ResultsFIVB Beach Volleyball WorldChampionships Mazury 2013 Men's ResultsFIVB Beach Volleyball WorldChampionships Mazury 2013 on TwitterFIVB Beach Volleyball WorldChampionships Mazury 2013 on YouTubeFIVBBeach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013 on Facebook Print this Page News {{item.LocalShortDate}} {{item.Title}} All the News